44 Completely Free Image Websites Even for Commercial Use

Adding beautiful photos to your articles and online presentations has several benefits. Readers will stay more engaged with media rich content rather than blocks of text alone. Furthermore, not only will your content will look more interesting, it will be more search engine friendly too.

However, simply running a search on Google and downloading images will just not do. There is no guarantee that these images will not be subject to copyright and even if Google produces image results under the Creative Commons search filter, you still can’t be sure that these images do not require attribution or whether or not they are free for commercial use, should that be the intended use for them. If you use an image that is incorrectly licensed or not free for use at all, you risk legal implications that can set you back a lot of money plus the headache.

Where to Find Copyright Free Images

There are plenty of websites that offer thousands of exceptional photographs that can be used for both personal projects as well as commercially. Thanks to a generous community of artists and photographers, we can use and even modify photos of landscapes, cities, objects, food and even humans without any restrictions. That's right, amazingly good photos without copyright, no watermarks, no rights reserved and everything comes under the Creative Commons Zero license.

For impressive collections of high-resolution images, check out these fantastic websites that all offer completely free photos for all sorts of uses including commercial use.

Pixabay is yet another brilliant website that has over 1.6 million free stock photos to share, all with no attribution required. In fact Pixabay also has a variety of free videos too, shared by their generous community of talented photographers and videographers.

Freestocks is another archive of lovely free images that you can use anywhere. Choose from all the popular categories such as animals, city and architecture, fashion, food and drinks, nature, people, objects and technology.

Pikwizard gives you 100,000 completely free images on their site, with over 20,000 exclusive to them. They upload new images daily to eventually achieve their goal of providing over one million royalty free images.